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Debate on bill on Monday, 11 January 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Balls. The answering member was Nick Gibb.

Children, Schools and Families Bill

Children, Schools and Families Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment debated and negatived on division (211 votes to 288). Second reading agreed to on division (287 votes to 206). Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading, and any other proceedings, agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
503 c425-528 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2010-0065
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Gove | 503 c446 (Link to this contribution) My approach is that there should be no hiding place for schools that fail to teach children to read ...
Ken Purchase | 503 c449 (Link to this contribution) Of course we can use statistics in this way, but the truth is that those academies that have improve...
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Elfyn Llwyd | 503 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen), who made a thoug...
Graham Stuart | 503 c493 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Barry Sheerman | 503 c486 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the skills that he is describing demand a highly professional deliver...
Graham Stuart | 503 c489 (Link to this contribution) I heartily congratulate the hon. Gentleman on what he said about Wales not following the Government'...
Elfyn Llwyd | 503 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) That rather diminishes my 46, but it does underline the great concern about the issue. I am sure tha...
Graham Allen | 503 c488 (Link to this contribution) That is why this issue is intergenerational, and why we must look at the new-born of today as the pa...
Andrew Miller | 503 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not a lawyer, but new section 19E includes the words""unless the child or a parent of the child...
Andrew Miller | 503 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the debate we have had so far, which I have tried to place in the context of thing...
Graham Stuart | 503 c493 (Link to this contribution) New section 19F(1)(e) states that a local authority may revoke a registration""by reason of a failur...
Andrew Miller | 503 c493 (Link to this contribution) I have referred the hon. Gentleman to new section 19G, which concerns appeals. The regulations shoul...
Sandra Gidley | 503 c493-6 (Link to this contribution) I am unsure whether my voice or my time will run out first, but I hope to concentrate on three issue...
Brian Jenkins | 503 c496-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley), who made a well-presented con...
Mark Field | 503 c498-501 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the opportunity to make a brief contribution to the debate. Given the time constraints,...
Judy Mallaber | 503 c501-3 (Link to this contribution) This is my first chance in the Chamber to pay my tribute to my dear friend and colleague, David Tayl...
Edward Timpson | 503 c503-5 (Link to this contribution) In the short time that is left in this Second Reading debate, I would like to concentrate on part 2 ...
Annette Brooke | 503 c505-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a very brief contribution on a few topics. On the first two, home education and perso...
Graham Stuart | 503 c507-9 (Link to this contribution) In the few minutes that I have, I shall address the subject of home education, as my hon. Friend the...
Chloe Smith | 503 c509-11 (Link to this contribution) You must excuse me, Mr. Speaker, for suffering from such a bad winter cold that any compassionate te...
Nick Gibb | 503 c511-4 (Link to this contribution) Well, here we are, Mr. Speaker, a new year and a new education Bill. It is now almost an annual even...
Denis MacShane | 503 c514 (Link to this contribution) In 1997, no school in Rotherham had been rebuilt for about 20 years, and there was rotting infrastru...
Lord Coaker | 503 c514 (Link to this contribution) First, may I thank everyone who has spoken in this debate, most of whom have made excellent contribu...
Robert Key | 503 c473 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) is neither a light touch nor a soft touch; she is a very fi...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has had a very distinguished career, and we are great friends outside the House. ...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c473 (Link to this contribution) Light-touch, soft-touch. In reality, what starts out as light-touch, particularly when a local auth...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to take an intervention. The Committee produced a good report, which recognised ...
Andrew Turner | 503 c478-80 (Link to this contribution) I must confess that I find the Bill, and particularly the provisions for the regulation of home scho...
Robert Key | 503 c474-6 (Link to this contribution) In responding to the distinguished Chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Committee, I shoul...
Caroline Flint | 503 c476-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Salisbury (Robert Key). I remember that when I was Pu...
Lord Bellingham | 503 c483-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman), who is an eminent...
Graham Allen | 503 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow my friend, the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham)...
Graham Allen | 503 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why the first thing that we did in, effectively, our pil...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) When I first examined the Bill, it made me consider how best to assess a measure on Second Reading. ...
Graham Allen | 503 c482 (Link to this contribution) If we are going to have anything at all in the national curriculum, it must be the basics. Every chi...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may well have won me over. What I was trying to get at is that I would have liked a r...
Brian Jenkins | 503 c487 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend realise that one of the biggest factors among parents is low expectations, bridl...
Graham Allen | 503 c487 (Link to this contribution) There are many things that flow from having effective social and emotional capabilities. That will i...
Caroline Flint | 503 c487 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my hon. Friend. I was very proud to be involved in one of the trailblazer Sure ...
Graham Allen | 503 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned one proposal that seems to have pretty broad support—the extension of P...
David Laws | 503 c462-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from "That" to the end of the Question and add:""this House...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 503 c462 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying very cleverly to get around something that we know is not there, and I ...
Graham Stuart | 503 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) The primacy of the interests of the child are not enshrined in the Bill, and I do not see how the Ch...
Graham Stuart | 503 c466 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman's speech closely. Did he accept those figures? My understanding is...
David Laws | 503 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree that it is always helpful when we use language that people understand and that is accessible...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 503 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) I support that, as my hon. Friend knows, and I have suggested those ideas to the Department over a n...
Graham Allen | 503 c460 (Link to this contribution) First, may I commend my right hon. Friend for her fantastic work on this issue when she was in the C...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 503 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) I trust that I shall take a fair deal less than the 15 minutes allocated to me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. ...
Lord Gove | 503 c471 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Lady, I am a great admirer of Durand school and its head teacher, and I very much enjo...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that what makes a good school is a good head teacher being given as much freedom as possible...
Annette Brooke | 503 c472 (Link to this contribution) I agree with a lot of what the hon. Lady says, but I do not see how ContactPoint will distinguish be...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) I personally agree with primary schools being able to become academies. I am not saying that I speak...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c472 (Link to this contribution) Every home educator to whom I have spoken in my constituency recognises that somebody, somewhere nee...
David Laws | 503 c466-70 (Link to this contribution) I accept that they are highly speculative. None of us can possibly know what the right numbers are, ...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c470 (Link to this contribution) There is probably nothing more important to our future as a prosperous country than the need to ensu...
Kelvin Hopkins | 503 c470 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. I shall not take too much of her time. As we know, she is fro...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c470 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend, although I have only 10 minutes.
Speaker | 503 c516 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the hon. Gentleman, but there is far too much noise coming from ...
Lord Coaker | 503 c514-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we have all seen improvements in school buildings in Rotherham and other areas of the country. ...
Lord Coaker | 503 c516 (Link to this contribution) The reason I am being shouted at is because the Conservatives' own Front-Bench team cannot believe t...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c441 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Gove | 503 c450 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. So far, however, answers come there none....
Ed Balls | 503 c425 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Children, Schools and Families Bill is ...
Ed Balls | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says from a sedentary position that David Taylor was opposed to academies, which is q...
Ken Purchase | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) And he was opposed to academies.
Andrew Selous | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a governor of a Church of England primary school in my constituency, which has always tak...
Ed Balls | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) I can give him an absolute assurance on that. I consulted in detail both the Catholic Education Serv...
Ed Balls | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) I will take another intervention.
Ed Balls | 503 c427 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and wish him a very happy birthday. The fact that the hon. Member for S...
Graham Allen | 503 c427 (Link to this contribution) May I urge my right hon. Friend to avoid another trap? Will he ensure that discussion of the teachin...
Ed Balls | 503 c427 (Link to this contribution) I shall not fall into the trap of assuming that if those on the Opposition Front Bench support a pol...
Philip Davies | 503 c426 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State seems to have the impression—he is certainly trying to give the impression—th...
Daniel Kawczynski | 503 c428 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Ed Balls | 503 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we discuss the details of the home education provisions, and I shall say someth...
Denis MacShane | 503 c427 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that, in the 12 years of the current Government, it has given me so much pleasure to ...
Ed Balls | 503 c428 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, we are currently conducting a review of the schools funding formula...
Lord Gove | 503 c428 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State says that the schools budget will increase if the Labour Government are re-el...
Ed Balls | 503 c428 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, but then I must move on.
Daniel Kawczynski | 503 c428 (Link to this contribution) The biggest problem is the huge difference in funding across the United Kingdom. The average Shropsh...
Ed Balls | 503 c433 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with those issues in a moment. Before I do, let me address the issue of guarantees, whic...
Ed Balls | 503 c433 (Link to this contribution) I was going to discuss home education, but I am happy to give way to my hon. Friend.
Barry Sheerman | 503 c433 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State moves on from special educational needs, may I congratulate him on tha...
Ed Balls | 503 c433-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Select Committee's reports of the past two, three or four yea...
Ed Balls | 503 c434-5 (Link to this contribution) I hear my hon. Friend's point, and I know that she has expertise in this matter. We have dealt with ...
Ann Cryer | 503 c434 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend consider accepting a new clause in the Bill to limit the defence of reason...
Ed Balls | 503 c435 (Link to this contribution) I do think that we should offer support, rather than impose it. In our response to the Badman report...
Graham Stuart | 503 c435 (Link to this contribution) Should not help be offered, not forced on families? If the Secretary of State is so enthusiastic abo...
Ed Balls | 503 c436 (Link to this contribution) I hear the point that the hon. Gentleman makes, but with respect, I do not agree at all. The Badman ...
Mark Field | 503 c435 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State not understand that the hyper-mobility and hyper-diversity in many of ou...
Baroness Hoey | 503 c436 (Link to this contribution) Would not some of the problems with non-registration be helped by the rolling out of ContactPoint ac...
David Chaytor | 503 c436 (Link to this contribution) Is not the point that we have had a voluntary scheme for years and years? Anyone has been able to re...
Ed Balls | 503 c436 (Link to this contribution) These would be interesting debates for the Committee, and it would be dangerous to allow the Select ...
Ed Balls | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) No; if I may be allowed to do so, I shall finish my points before the hon. Gentleman stands up again...
Lord Gove | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State confirm that spending on initial teacher training in schools will increas...
Ed Balls | 503 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do so, because this was all set out at the time of the pre-Budget report. In 2010-11, ...
Lord Gove | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) Does that include money for the training and development of new teachers? Does it also include money...
Ed Balls | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that it does not include capital funding for schools, because the PBR set o...
Lord Gove | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Graham Allen | 503 c430 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Many Back Benchers wish to speak in this debate. Given that...
Lord Gove | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way again?
Ed Balls | 503 c430 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that a world-class education system depends on guaranteeing excellence for all, not just...
Ed Balls | 503 c429 (Link to this contribution) I have just answered those questions. The problem with the hon. Gentleman is that, like the Leader o...
David Laws | 503 c431 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has just said that these are guarantees that can be relied upon and he also p...
Ken Purchase | 503 c431 (Link to this contribution) This is at the heart of the Bill; the most important reform that the Secretary of State is introduci...
Ed Balls | 503 c431 (Link to this contribution) The guarantees are in the Bill; we will set out in law for the very first time such guarantees to pu...
Liz Blackman | 503 c430 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend assure me that data will be collected on all children on the autistic spect...
Ed Balls | 503 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. As she knows, the schools census collects data on children...
Jim Cunningham | 503 c433 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend come on to an issue on which many hon. Members have been lobbying? I am su...
Ed Balls | 503 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. Children who move around the country are always potentially more vulnera...
Robert Goodwill | 503 c432 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is aware of the battle that many parents have to go through to get their chil...
Ed Balls | 503 c432 (Link to this contribution) Just before Christmas, Brian Lamb's review considered the detail of all those issues. To strengthen ...
Rob Marris | 503 c432 (Link to this contribution) Echoing the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Purchase), th...
Ed Balls | 503 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) It partly depends on the judgment of the teachers. I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman woul...
John Hemming | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way on this point about accountability and transparency in...
Ed Balls | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time.
Edward Timpson | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State spoke earlier about the NSPCC's support for his plans for home education. Doe...
Ed Balls | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) Again, it is not possible for us all to agree at all times with every stakeholder who has a view on ...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c437 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for all the publicity of the Select Committee's report. Does my right hon. Friend agre...
Ed Balls | 503 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point, although adding penalties would further inflame the minority of...
Ed Balls | 503 c437 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, with your permission, Mr. Deputy Speaker. He has made one interve...
Ed Balls | 503 c437 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point. It is really important to get that right in training and guidan...
Ed Balls | 503 c440 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's point, but I do not fully agree, because the 2006 Act, which I support...
David Chaytor | 503 c440 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State leaves parental satisfaction surveys, I must note that the Bill descri...
Ed Balls | 503 c440 (Link to this contribution) We should discuss in Committee and subsequently the details of how we operate the measure. An exampl...
Rob Marris | 503 c440 (Link to this contribution) In response to my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt), the Secretary of State said, in...
Ed Balls | 503 c439 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. A world-class education system is only now within our grasp because of the progress...
Tom Levitt | 503 c439 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. I am not opposed to any school having charitab...
Ed Balls | 503 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) The reason why is that we now have a large number of academies, with the figure heading towards 400,...
Ken Purchase | 503 c440 (Link to this contribution) On the point about the ability to run chains of schools, which the Secretary of State has been promo...
Ed Balls | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) Upsetting those on both sides of an argument is often the best way to get to the right outcome. I he...
Graham Stuart | 503 c438 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lindsay Roy | 503 c443 (Link to this contribution) I assume that the Secretary of State is also interested in profit-making in schools, but profit-maki...
Speaker | 503 c442 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure that the Secretary of State can reassure the House about where the building of scho...
Ed Balls | 503 c442 (Link to this contribution) The point is that there are two different approaches to driving school improvement. We can do it eit...
Ed Balls | 503 c441 (Link to this contribution) Because some academies are innovating in the way that they organise the school term and the school d...
Speaker | 503 c442 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Secretary of State has been speaking for nearly an hour. I appreciate that he has taken a...
Ed Balls | 503 c442 (Link to this contribution) It is relevant to the debate about whether standards are rising or falling, but I am happy to return...
Barry Sheerman | 503 c441 (Link to this contribution) It is an important point; the Secretary of State will know that Back Benchers can intervene as many ...
Lord Gove | 503 c445 (Link to this contribution) I sense that the right hon. Lady is straining at the bit, so I am happy to allow her to come in.
Lord Gove | 503 c445 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with the right hon. Lady—I have often agreed with her arguments and she makes...
Ed Balls | 503 c443 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right. That is the difference. Do we have a market-based mechanism, wit...
Speaker | 503 c443 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next hon. Member to speak, I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has selected...
Lord Gove | 503 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) May I first associate myself with the comments of the Secretary of State about the former Member for...
Liz Blackman | 503 c444 (Link to this contribution) It would be helpful to me and others if the hon. Gentleman got on with his argument and started ment...
Lord Gove | 503 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) My first comments paid tribute to a Member of the House, now departed, who devoted his life to the c...
Lord Gove | 503 c445 (Link to this contribution) Which of those approaches the right hon. Lady supports will be of great interest to me.
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 503 c445 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman will come back to what will drive up standards in education, whi...
David Chaytor | 503 c446 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the shadow Secretary of State for giving way. If he believes in professional a...
Lord Gove | 503 c446 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman is being a little bit previous and premature—I am not actually the Secret...
Lindsay Roy | 503 c446 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Gove | 503 c445-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is presumably unaware of the fact that the Conservatives have consistently argue...
Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 503 c445 (Link to this contribution) Those organisations are not opposed to things such as licensing, because we have to know that teache...
David Chaytor | 503 c446 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Gove | 503 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) I will not at the moment. The one consistent complaint I hear when I talk to teachers, heads, gover...
Lindsay Roy | 503 c447 (Link to this contribution) In what ways does the licence to practise inhibit empowerment and autonomy among staff? Surely it en...
Lord Gove | 503 c447 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will already be aware, as a distinguished head teacher who did a brilliant job, t...
Tom Levitt | 503 c448 (Link to this contribution) I should tell the hon. Gentleman that teaching today is an awful lot better than it was when I was a...
Lord Gove | 503 c447-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that that was an intervention on me, but I recognise my hon. Friend's point. The hon. Member...
Mark Field | 503 c447 (Link to this contribution) I was interested to hear the most recent exchange, but perhaps my hon. Friend could tell me precisel...
Lord Gove | 503 c447 (Link to this contribution) I merely pointed out that the licence to practise seems to add no benefit. Indeed, the body that wil...
Lindsay Roy | 503 c447 (Link to this contribution) With due respect, the hon. Gentleman indicated earlier that the licence to practise inhibited autono...
Lord Gove | 503 c449 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will probably be grateful to know that academies have been raising their level of...
Lord Gove | 503 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the hon. Gentleman's contribution to improving our children's education by retiring as a t...
Lord Gove | 503 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) I reject that view; I think that those parents have more say. They can vote with their feet, as the ...
Bob Russell | 503 c449 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman feel that the removal of academies from the democratic process is a step for...
Ken Purchase | 503 c450 (Link to this contribution) I really wanted to talk about academies, but if we ask that question, we find a great body of educat...
Lord Gove | 503 c450 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is right, that is the exact opposite of what the Government are proposing. The...
David Laws | 503 c450 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being too generous. The guarantee on sport is only for "access" to five hours,...
Lord Gove | 503 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pointing out how loosely framed this guarantee is. Perhaps i...
Bob Russell | 503 c451 (Link to this contribution) May I take the hon. Gentleman back to transparency and academies? Will he look at a series of parlia...
Ed Balls | 503 c451 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Gove | 503 c451 (Link to this contribution) I know the hon. Gentleman is an indefatigable campaigner when it comes to schooling in Essex, but I ...
Ed Balls | 503 c452 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman began his speech by saying that he wanted to get down to the truth of the issue. ...
Lord Gove | 503 c452 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to hearing the right hon. Gentleman spell out the source of the funding of those guar...
Lord Gove | 503 c452 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has not guaranteed anything of the kind. During the debate on the Loyal Add...
Lord Gove | 503 c453 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—and I am happy to give way to the Secretary of State.
Ed Balls | 503 c453 (Link to this contribution) This will be my last intervention, Mr. Deputy Speaker. To fund our guarantee for school leavers nex...
Speaker | 503 c452 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Secretary of State attempts to intervene again, I remind the House, and the Front ...
Lord Gove | 503 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my hon. Friend makes his point succinctly and well, and I cannot improve on his interventio...
Lord Gove | 503 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for evading the question again. We do not know where that ...
Speaker | 503 c454 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure the hon. Gentleman will in future remember to use the correct terminology for addre...
Lord Gove | 503 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Let me therefore repeat that my right hon. Friend the Member for Witn...
Graham Stuart | 503 c455 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that head teachers should better be able to monitor the teachers on their ...
Lord Gove | 503 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand the point made by my hon. Friend; he is right to say that a host of reasons ar...
Mark Field | 503 c457 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also recognise that there are often positive reasons for parents choosing to edu...
Lord Gove | 503 c458 (Link to this contribution) I do foresee the need to make some changes. I do not believe that the current system is perfect, but...
David Laws | 503 c458 (Link to this contribution) I share some of the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has outlined. Is it his party's position that t...
Lord Gove | 503 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) It seems that the Government have learned very little; indeed, I believe that the report on which th...
Graham Stuart | 503 c456 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend is aware that New Zealand introduced a similar licensing and monitor...
Graham Stuart | 503 c458 (Link to this contribution) Instead of shaking his head, perhaps the Secretary of State could fix that.
Lord Gove | 503 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. More broadly, I should point out that the Secretary of State...
Graham Stuart | 503 c458 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend finds it bizarre, as I do, that this Bill, unlike any piece of legis...
Speaker | 503 c430 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the hon. Gentleman realises that I am not in a position to rule on that matter at this poi...
Speaker | 503 c459 (Link to this contribution) Order. The pre-debate calculations carried out did not take account of the length of the two Front-B...
Graham Stuart | 503 c492 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that guarantee is terribly absolute. Although a parent may object to the inspect...
Ed Balls | 503 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) I said a moment ago that we would legislate for a licence to practise that would give teachers the s...
Ed Balls | 503 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) I think we established during my speech that we want these to be guarantees for all pupils and all p...
Subjects
Education Disclosure of information Accountability Curriculum Charities Capital investment Classroom assistants Autism Finance Licensing Family courts Home education Dyslexia Parents Local education authorities Punishment Pupils Monitoring Primary education Standards Teaching methods Safety Personal, social, health and economic education Registration Schools Teachers Special educational needs Training Young offenders Youth justice Basic skills Local safeguarding children boards Academies
Legislation
Children, Schools and Families Bill 2009-10
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